US Goes To Mid-term Polls With No One Risking To Predict Result After 2016 Presidential Election

Americans across the country will go to mid-term polls on Tuesday to decide which party will control Congress, but after a surprise 2016 presidential election that won the White House for President Trump, no one is predicting results with certainty.

WASHINGTON, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Nov, 2018 ) :Americans across the country will go to mid-term polls on Tuesday to decide which party will control Congress, but after a surprise 2016 presidential election that won the White House for President Trump, no one is predicting results with certainty.

Until today, ruling Republican held both the House of Representatives and the Senate, allowing President Trump to work on his agenda. A general trend is favoring Democrats to win the House of Representatives, while Republicans appear to maintain their majority, or even improve it by a little margin. If that happens, it would still be not a good news for the President.

Two years ago, the media and analysts made everyone to believe that a victory for former First Lady Hillary Clinton was but certain. But after the results started pouring in, the things started to change for the worse for Clinton, and conservatives began mocking the reactions of television anchors.

That seems a lesson learnt as tv anchors and analyst on CNN, NBV, ABC CBS and Fox News as well as executives from the leading newspapers such as the Washington Post and The New York Times are not making any foregone conclusions.

Talking to online news magazine POLITICO, ABC senior executive producer, Marc Burstein, said that there were assumptions made in 2018 by lots of news organizations, but added that he was going to avoid the trend and follow the result..We are not going to assume anything.

Being held in the middle of President Trump's first term, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be up for grab.

The mid-term elections has already taken the stature of a game-changer, nearly two years after President Trump took the charge and introduced changes that were but drastic � both at the national as well as foreign front.

A Republican majority, both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives helped him much in implementing his agenda.

Measures for which he could not get support of the Congress, he enforced, or tried to enforce, through his executive authority.

Most recently, the Republican majority enabled the President to install the Supreme Court justice of his choice, tilting the composition of the apex court towards conservatives. Losing majority in any of the houses would make things difficult for him.

The voting has begun on a big note with a staggering 36 million voters cast their absentee ballots ahead of Election Day this year, setting the stage for a much-higher-than usual turnout. In the previous mid-term polls in 2014, 27.2 million people voted early, according to Michael McDonald , a University of Florida professor who tracks voter turnout.

Such a big turnout in states such as Texas, Nevada and Arizona, means they could inspire results that diverge from any pre-election polls that did not take into consideration unusually high enthusiasm.

The voters enthusiasm has been driven by President Trump's relentless campaigning to ignite his suburb voters base and by former President Barack Obama, who toured several states to win support Democratic candidates.

Speaking to campaign rallies for Republican candidates, President Trump framed the mid-term polls as referendum on his presidency."In a sense, I am on the ticket,"� told a rally in the state of Ohio. You have to got to go out and vote.

In his rallies, President Trump focused on his trade-mark anti-immigration policies, stoking fears about border security, citing a caravan of thousands of people, who are marching through Mexico toward the US border to seek asylum. President Trump has deployed troops to prevent the border cross-over.